Two Questions About chkdisk

[David E. Ross]

If I run chkdsk on my C-drive -- which requires a reboot -- I know a
summary log is available through the Event Viewer under Application
(source = Winlogon). However, if I run chkdsk on my D-drive -- which
does not require a reboot -- is there a way to view a summary log?

After running chkdsk on my C-drive, I found my configuration was
changed. My desktop had a different style. A registry tweak that
allows me to search HTML files for embedded markup was undone. The
empty and not-empty Recyle Bin icons were changed. Is this a bug? Or
is this a "feature"? It didn't take me long to fix these changes, but
it was very annoying. Is there a way to avoid these changes in the
future?

Windows XP Home Edition 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
(Build 2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.070227-2254)

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[Bill in Co.]

Interesting to hear this. Sounds like chkdsk is relying on its backup
files, some of which were apparently not updated when you made that registry
tweak.

But then again, I wouldn't expect that to have been undone by just a small
registry tweak (or the Recycle bin icons for that matter), since it seems
doubtful that would have modified any core system DLL files. So how does
that happen?

(The presumption here being that CHKDSK primarily monitors the system DLL
and EXE files for being replaced with different versions)

 

[David E. Ross]

I think the other changes -- desktop style, Recyle Bin icons, etc -- are
also controlled by registry entries.

The summary log from running chkdsk -- excluding the "Internal Info" was:
Event Type: Information
Event Source: Winlogon
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 5/4/2008
Time: 11:33:18 AM
User: N/A
Computer: ROSS-207086
Description:
Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is Software.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.
Cleaning up 98 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 98 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 98 unused security descriptors.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
Free space verification is complete.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

78148160 KB total disk space.
15459520 KB in 56643 files.
17564 KB in 4535 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
119188 KB in use by the system.
43328 KB occupied by the log file.
62551888 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
19537040 total allocation units on disk.
15637972 allocation units available on disk.

Interesting to hear this. Sounds like chkdsk is relying on its backup
files, some of which were apparently not updated when you made that registry
tweak.

But then again, I wouldn't expect that to have been undone by just a small
registry tweak (or the Recycle bin icons for that matter), since it seems
doubtful that would have modified any core system DLL files. So how does
that happen?

(The presumption here being that CHKDSK primarily monitors the system DLL
and EXE files for being replaced with different versions)

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<http://www.rossde.com/>

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Then use SeaMonkey. Go to <http://www.seamonkey-project.org/>.

 

[Bill in Co.]

I think the other changes -- desktop style, Recyle Bin icons, etc -- are
also controlled by registry entries.

Absolutely! But why *chkdsk* would get into the act here is beyond me.

And the "log" below (I almost hesitate to use that term here) doesn't show
me much of anything.

(Sadly, this is in stark contrast to that in Win98SE, where the SFC scandisk
LOG file actually *does* show you something! Plus running SFC in Win98SE
actually gives you some options).

 

[Gerry]

David

"CHKDSK detected minor inconsistencies" error message in Windows 2000
and in Windows NT
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/109524

Found this if you are using Windows Server 2003
An update is available that lets the Chkdsk.exe tool compact the NTFS
security descriptor stream in Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919241/en-us

Looking in a Disk Defragmenter Report what information is there about
the MFT corresponding to this?
Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
Total MFT size = 59 MB
MFT record count = 52,217
Percent MFT in use = 86 %
Total MFT fragments = 4

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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